About Us

Leading education savings for over half a century

The Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation (CST) has one aim: To make it possible for every Canadian to plan for their children’s post-secondary education. CST Spark is the latest chapter from the ongoing story of innovative education savings that began in 1960.

A vision and a legacy

In 1960, the Canadian Scholarship Trust (CST) Foundation was born with the objective to make post-secondary education accessible to our children. Today, that’s more relevant than ever.

Empowering Canadian children

Our creators laid the foundation of organized education savings. They pioneered the Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP), and lobbied government for tax incentives and grants. The result: half a million children received the education to achieve their goals.

Building on a tradition of innovation

Today, we continue to inspire and revolutionize education savings with CST Spark – the simple modern RESP that combines top investment expertise with the latest technology.

In 2016, The Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation provided $50,000 in funding to a group of young children called the Classy Cyborgs.

Meet our team

Today our team of Direct Dealing Representatives is just as passionate about accessible higher education as our pioneers were. Our focus is solely on education savings for you – it’s all we care about and all we do.

Nazmus S
Direct Dealing Representative

Michael L
Direct Dealing Representative

Jean-Michel K
Direct Dealing Representative

Cathy Y
Direct Dealing Representative

Alexandra A
Direct Dealing Representative

Our partners

We want to give you the best opportunities to grow your investments. That’s why CST Spark partners only with the best in the business. These include:

Our investment manager

BlackRock

BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited helps people around the world pursue their investing goals, and has the distinction of being trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm in the world. [Based on US$6.3 trillion in AUM as of December 31, 2017.]

Our trustee

RBC Investor and Treasury Services

RBC Investor Services Trust is a specialist provider of asset services, custody, payments and treasury services. It is part of Royal Bank of Canada, one of the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization.